Mondealy
This page is about the game. For the demo, see Mondealy: Day One. For the location, see Mondealy (Location).
Mondealy is about you building relationships and exploring the world.
Steam game description
Mondealy is a RPG developed by uglycoal and published by Valkyrie Initiative. It was released on 9 August 2023, and is available for PC (Windows & Linux), Nintendo Switch, and Xbox.
The demo of the game, Mondealy: Day One, was released on September 13, 2021 and is available for free.
Gameplay
Assume the role of Michael - just an ordinary guy who managed to discover the pathways leading under his hometown, right into the unexplored underground kingdom of Dargratt. By a strange set of events and coincidences, Michael meets the royal family, now it’s up to them to decide what is going to happen with him next…
Steam game description
Mondealy is a role-playing game with deep story that tells about Michael; an ordinary human discovering the underground kingdom of Dargratt. The game is narrated by the Reader, who documented everything about Michael's adventure, and the events in the game are her story for a man entering Mondealy for the first time.
The player's choices in Mondealy affect the relationships with the characters and partially determine the ending of the game. However, not all choices in the game are canonical.[1] Also, the game world "welcomes silly and spontaneous ideas" - sometimes, depending on the player's behavior you can see special dialogues or scenes that usually don't have an impact on the story.
Story
Will be added soon.
Development
Mondealy was developed almost single-handedly by uglycoal. Development began in late 2018[2], the demo was released in September 2021, and the game was released after 5 years of work, on August 9, 2023.
Trivia
- uglycoal started working on the game when he was 14 years old.[3]
- The game's story has been remade almost from scratch at least once. Originally, the plot was planned to feature an "evil mega-corporation" that planned to take the holy tree of Dargratt.[4] This plot was scrapped, but numerous changes were subsequently made to other parts of the current plot - such as the introduction.
- The world Michael finds himself in towards the end of the game is a reference to the events of the old story.[5]
External links
Links to the game in stores are listed in the sidebar of the site or at the top of the page.
References
- ↑ From game's gallery: "...fortunately, it's a bad choice and is not considered part of the canonical story."
- ↑ From the game's splash: "In development since late 2018!"
- ↑ uglycoal in VK (post in Russian): "And so I turned 20.", April 2, 2024
- ↑ From game's gallery: "The original story-line was supposed to end with Michael and his friends exposing the mega-corporation and it's schemes to claim Dargatt's holy tree for its own benefit."
- ↑ From game's gallery: "Since that world is based on the earlier version of the story and the earlier designs."